German Association of Germanists

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German Association of Germanists
(DGV)
purpose Professional association for Germanists
Chair: Martin Huber (University),

Beate Kennedy (school)

Establishment date: May 29, 1912 in Frankfurt am Main
Seat : University of Saarland
Website: germanistenverband.de

The German Association of Germanists ( DGV ) is an association for Germanists working professionally at schools, universities, advanced training facilities and research institutions .

structure

The association is divided into the "Society for University German Studies" and the "Fachverband Deutsch". The former is the specialist group for university Germanists. German teachers are organized in the “Fachverband Deutsch”.

Purpose of the association

The association wants to strengthen the connection between the Germanists who work at schools and universities and to ensure an exchange of knowledge here. The association endeavors to represent the interests of the field in public. He maintains contacts with neighboring specialist areas and other professional associations at home and abroad. The Fachverband Deutsch as a subsection represents the professional and interests of German teachers.

history

The association was founded on May 29, 1912 in Frankfurt am Main. In his introductory lecture, the Frankfurt university professor Friedrich Panzer demanded “that our youth should be educated on ethnic grounds, that is, German should be placed at the center of teaching” and that general “ German studies ” should be justified. He was supported by the Frankfurt grammar school teachers Johann Georg Sprengel and Klaudius Bojunga , who called for a new type of German school that should remove Latin from the curriculum. In 1920 the association was renamed the Society for German Education , the association's body was Das deutsche Gymnasium , and from 1925 the Journal for German Education (ZfDB). The topics were always the German language , German culture and German people .

The first chairman from 1912 to 1922 was the conservative Marburg professor Ernst Elster . His successor until 1933 was Friedrich Panzer. The organization rate among German university lecturers reached over 80 percent in the Weimar Republic . The National Socialist chairman Friedrich Neumann transferred the Society for German Education in 1935 to the National Socialist Teachers' Association .

The Association of German University Germanists was re-established in Heidelberg in September 1951 ; its first chairman was Jost Trier ( University of Münster ). This was followed by Wolfgang Kayser ( University of Göttingen ) in October 1956 at the Germanistenag in Frankfurt am Main, elected in October 1958 at the Germanistenag in Hamburg Friedrich Maurer ( University of Freiburg ), in September 1959 Wilhelm Emrich ( University of Cologne , then FU Berlin ), in Hugo Moser ( University of Bonn ) in June 1962 at the Germanistenag in Mannheim , in October 1964 on the Germanistenag in Essen Benno von Wiese (University of Bonn), in October 1966 on the Germanistenag in Munich Karl Heinz Borck ( University of Hamburg ), in October 1968 the Germanistenag in Berlin Walter Müller-Seidel , in April 1972 on the Germanistenag in Stuttgart Eberhard Lämmert ( University of Heidelberg ), in April 1976 on the Germanistenag in Düsseldorf Karl Otto Conrady (University of Cologne).

From 1952 to the early 1970s, three specialist groups - university Germanists, German teachers, Germanists at universities of education - formed the German Association of Germanists . Since 1954 the DGV published the magazine Mitteilungen (Mttlg.).

Association body

The German Association of Germanists publishes the association organ "Mitteilungen" for both sub-associations on a quarterly basis. In addition, members of the German Association of Germanists receive an electronic newsletter every six months with selected technical and political information.

German Association of German Studies

The association organizes a German Association of German Studies every three years . The Munich Germanistenag in 1966 became legendary when the involvement of well-known professorships in National Socialism was discussed. In 2013 it took place at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel. In 2016 it took place at the University of Bayreuth on the subject of “storytelling”.

literature

Sabine Koloch: Does German studies need a code of ethics? To the German Association of Germanists (2020), in: 1968 in German literary studies / subject group “Post-War German Studies in Criticism” (literaturkritik.de archive / special editions).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rainer Beßling : School of national ethics. Johann Georg Sprengel. The German Studies Movement and the German Association of Germanists. 1997, ISBN 978-3-631-30159-3
  2. ↑ Bernhard Metz: "During your holidays Germania, where you are a priestess" German literary studies in the time of National Socialism . 2002, p. 21st ff ., urn : nbn: de: bsz: 352-opus-9765 ( uni-konstanz.de [accessed on 23 September 2019]).
  3. ↑ Die Deutsche Höhere Schule 2, 13, 1935, p. 465
  4. ↑ Jörg Schönert: No easy years for German studies, Walter Müller-Seidel and the association of German university Germanists in the German Association of Germanists (1958 to 1972). (PDF) July 2, 2012, accessed July 9, 2012 .
  5. ^ Deutscher Germanistentag 2016. In: www.germanistenverband.de. Archived from the original on October 12, 2017 ; accessed on October 12, 2017 .